Last Tuesday, May 3, local tastemaker DJ Munch and his team put together a remarkable event at the U Street Music Hall where nine of DC’s (and the […]
Television Review: HBO’s Thrones And Other Shows That Lose My Game
I was scheduled to do a piece on HBO’s new, wildly successful Game of Thrones this week. I have to be honest: I put off watching it because […]
NEW ALBUM: Femi Kuti – Africa for Africa
It’s impossible to separate Femi Kuti’s new album, “Africa for Africa,” from politics and his father. The African jazz legend Fela Kuti and the force by which he […]
TELEVISION: TREME Speaks Volumes in Silence
josephrileyland is a television writer and blogs at kitchen Sofa. He lives in Harlem, NY. TREME speaks volumes in silence. The opening sequence for the second season of […]
EP Spotlight: Mark de Clive-Lowe – Leaving This Planet EP
Leaving this Planet EP by Mark de Clive-Lowe presents… Mark de Clive-Lowe has provided us with yet another tantalizing teaser of an EP: Leaving This Planet. At first […]
INTERVIEW: Les Nubians
I recently got a chance to sit down with the lovely Faussart sisters, better known to the world as Les Nubians. The Afro-French duo were in D.C. celebrating […]
LIVE: Kehinde Wiley “Global Africa” Artist Talk in Washington, DC
Kehinde Wiley swag. Visual artist, Kehinde Wiley, is so hip-hop it hurts. In 2010, he referred to himself as “post-hip-hop,” quoted in an article in Words. Beats. Life: […]
INTERVIEW: The Original Dom Kennedy
Photos by Joann Gomez, Music Looks Like This Photography (@MLLTPhotos). Interviewby Suley Cruz (@NycSueBee) It seems like Los Angeles, once a hip-hop wasteland, is now flourishing. Everyone from […]
New Music – Grimes: ‘Vanessa’
Ever since I can remember I’ve a had a disposition for moodiness and obscurity, which at the time meant an entire childhood and adolescence of awkward self-loathing without […]
LIVE: J*DaVeY, Blu, Alison Carney, R.E.E.S.E. and Def Sound, Liv Nightclub, DC
From L to R: Brook D’Leau and Briana Cartwright (a.k.a. Jack Davey) of J*DaVeY, Raheem DeVaughn and W Ellington Felton. All photos courtesy of Jati Lindsay. The […]